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Explore stories with recorded historical genres and settings.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 890 films · Page 27.

The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)

Historical drama, drama film

The film dramatises the 1909 Tottenham Outrage – a bungled wages-snatch which resulted in the murder of a police officer and a ten-year-old bystander as well as the deaths of the two armed robbers – and the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, in …

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Lost Empires (1986)

drama television series

After the death of his mother, Richard Herncastle (Colin Firth) is offered a job by his maternal uncle. Nick Ollanton is a stage conjurer in variety theatre and Richard joins the act where he meets the other members of the team and the res…

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Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)

Adventure, Drama, Swashbuckler, drama film

Following the death of Richard the Lionheart, evil King John plans to retain his power by importing mercenaries and paying them through oppressive taxation. King John first attempts to kill Robin, the son of longtime nemesis Robin Hood. Wh…

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The Leaving of Liverpool (1992)

The series follows two children—Lily (played by Christine Tremarco) and Bert (Kevin Jones)—who meet at the Star of the Sea Orphanage in Liverpool, England in the early 1950s. They go to Australia as child migrants where they are separated …

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Wells Fargo (1937)

Western, Western film

In the early 1840s, Wells & Fargo employee Ramsay MacKay comes upon a broken-down carriage in the countryside and gives belle Justine Pryor and her mother a lift into Buffalo, New York, though he warns them he is in a hurry to make a deliv…

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A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940)

biographical film, drama film

Paul Reuter starts a messenger service using homing pigeons to fill a gap in the telegraph network spanning Europe, but he faces difficulty attracting subscribers. When poison is mistakenly sent to a hospital, Reuter's message saves many l…

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Foxhole in Cairo (1960)

spy film

During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spi…

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The Monk (1990)

drama film, horror film

The film begins in 18th century Spain, with Father Lorenzo (Paul McGann) and Mother Agueda (Isla Blair) being tried before the Spanish Inquisition, and Lorenzo agreeing to confess and tell his story in order to escape torture. The setting …

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Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Adventure, Drama, Historie, Romance Film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, silent film

thumb|thumbtime=0|upright=1.5|alt=Black and white silent film showing Biblical epic scenes|Judith of Bethulia The film is based on the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrians, a wid…

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Carol of the Bells (2022)

Christmas film, historical drama

At the center of attention are children from three families: Ukrainian, Polish, and Jewish. They live in the city of Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) in neighboring houses. The Soviet regime, which arrived in 1939, deprived the children o…

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Traceroute (2016)

biographical film, comedy film, cyberpunk, documentary film, historical film

Lydia Bailey (1952)

drama film

In 1802, American lawyer Albion Hamlin travels from Baltimore to Cap-Français in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. He wants to obtain the signature of Lydia Bailey, whose late father left his large estate to the American govern…

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Bill W. (2012)

biographical film, documentary film

The film includes interviews with several recovering alcoholics who are photographed in dark shadows to maintain their anonymity, and also makes use of dramatic reenactments to visualize key events in Wilson's life. Blake J. Evans portrays…

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Cleopatra (1912)

Historical drama

In a series of staged tableaux, Cleopatra presents the dramatic arc of the Egyptian queen’s life through richly designed scenes that emphasize spectacle and visual storytelling. The narrative begins with Cleopatra's romantic involvement wi…

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Oedipus the King (1968)

historical film

The film is a largely faithful adaptation of the original text, with a screenplay based on Paul Roche's translation directly from the Greek published in the early 1950s. However, the film went a step further than the play, by actually show…

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Beau Brummel (1924)

Historical drama, ghost film, romance film, silent film

In 1795, the cream of English aristocracy attend the wedding of "tradesman's daughter" Margery. She loves Beau Brummel, a penniless captain in the Tenth Hussars, but has been pressured into agreeing to marry Lord Alvanley, exchanging her f…

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